Small library for validating and normalising persistent identifiers used in scholarly communication.

Features

  • Validation and normalization of persistent identifiers.
  • Detection of persistent identifier scheme.
  • Generation of resolving links for persistent identifiers.
  • Supported schemes: ISBN10, ISBN13, ISSN, ISTC, DOI, Handle, EAN8, EAN13, ISNI ORCID, ARK, PURL, LSID, URN, Bibcode, arXiv, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, GND.

Installation

The IDUtils package is on PyPI so all you need is:

$ pip install idutils

API

Changes

Version 0.2.1 (2016-06-17)

  • Changes ISBN normalization to use isbnid instead of isbnlib. Now, importing this library will not change the default socket timeout, resulting in unwanted side effects.

Version 0.2.0 (2016-04-07)

Version 0.1.1 (2015-07-22)

  • Fixes GND validation and normalization.
  • Replaces invalid package name in run-tests.sh and makes run-tests.sh file executable. One can now use docker-compose run –rm web /code/run-tests.sh to run all the CI tests (pep257, sphinx, test suite).
  • Initial release of Docker configuration suitable for local developments. docker-compose build rebuilds the image, docker-compose run –rm web /code/run-tests.sh runs the test suite.

Version 0.1.0 (2015-07-02)

  • First public release.

Contributing

Bug reports, feature requests, and other contributions are welcome. If you find a demonstrable problem that is caused by the code of this library, please:

  1. Search for already reported problems.
  2. Check if the issue has been fixed or is still reproducible on the latest master branch.
  3. Create an issue with a test case.

If you create a feature branch, you can run the tests to ensure everything is operating correctly:

$ ./run-tests.sh

License

IDUtils is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Revised BSD License quoted below.

Copyright (C) 2015, 2016 CERN.

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